It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

The word of God is full of assurance.

No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.

When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

A good therapist uses their whole being to engage fully with the whole being of the person coming for help.

Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide.

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.